This used to be a guilty pleasure of mine, but these last 5 episodes have been insanely good. i'm seriously hoping that there is a spinoff series that continues with ceaser (if the writing continues at this level). on an other note; that is definitely not how i would have handled ceaser, I assume it's going to come back to bite in him in a$$ at some point :P
I'm a big fan of the show as well but let's not make it out to be a quality show in terms of the writing. The show is a lot of fun, a guilty pleasure, nothing more.
I'm a big fan of the show as well but let's not make it out to be a quality show in terms of the writing. The show is a lot of fun, a guilty pleasure, nothing more.
I could write the dialogue in this show.
Mind your tongue. If you feel like breaking such ####### words again you'll find my sword press firmly through your heart. Now, see that you hear my words and make peace with them.
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F*** the Gods for ending this show. The glory will be mine when I spread cheek and shove c*** in their f***ing a**.
Seriously though, this show was awesome. I was waiting for the end credits for them to show Whitfield and then they had him with the line "I am Spartacus". What a finale, what a show.
Manly tears were shed.
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Even for a show I loved already, the ending to this series was way above expectations! I was blown away by it, it was emotional and satisfying in every imaginable way.
I'm already feeling withdrawal!
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I was wondering how they would end the show as the historical records say they never found Spartacus's body. Would they kill him or would he grow old with my power ranger... I thoroughly loved the finale and the writers made excellent choices.
Now that is how you end a series. Although a show that may not go down in history as one of the greats, that finale has to be a top 10!
I disagree. I think this show will be remembered fondly because there was no TV show like it ever.
It was a rough start for Spartacus. The first 3 episodes should have killed it as the graphics weren't quite right but the bewbies and gore saved it from cancellation and then it just took off, however, the second season was picked up by Starz before the first episode aired. The budget to make the first season of the show was paltry at 1.25 million per episode. What they did with that money was astounding if you compare it to most shows and there 3-8 million dollar budgets.
The storyline for Pompei is something they could jump right into!
I wonder if they could pull off the series with Caesar et al? Considering they were the villains in Spartacus I wonder if people will take to them as anything but that?
Or does it matter?
I watch a lot of TV, and not much of it is as carefully thought out and painstakingly crafted as this show. And yet, "Spartacus" is cathartic, entertainingly melodramatic and funny as well. For three years now, it's consistently delivered a mixture of escapism, adventure and dramatic ambition that more lauded (and expensive) shows only rarely supply. And through it all, "Spartacus" didn't take itself too seriously, although it has become more measured in this final season, which is only right, given the magnitude of the threat Spartacus faces and how much we have come to care for those leading the rag-tag rebel army.
The original plan for Episode 9 had been for Spartacus and his crew to force the Romans to fight each other (as allegedly happened in history). But DeKnight realized it wouldn't be enjoyable for the audience to watch their favorite characters sit on the sidelines for half the episode, so they changed it to gladiators fighting the Romans, and thus recalling the glories of the arena days.
On the passions of fans: "I love the fans dearly, I interact with them all the time but I would never make a creative decision based on fans liking somebody or not liking somebody," DeKnight said. "I think that is such a slippery slope. You have to just tell a good story. If I was listening to the fans, I never would have killed Varro" in Season 1, but we discussed how that moment was a pivotal turning point for the show and for Spartacus as a character.
He wanted one couple to survive and walk off into the sunset together, and because no other couples made sense, given the demands of various characters' stories, in a "de facto" way, the surviving pair ended up being Agron and Nasir. "It was important to me -- we had to have a ray of hope at the end of this very sad story," DeKnight said. He is pretty sure "Nagron" fans will be happy that they lived, given that he has been "pelted" with fans who wanted the couple to end up happy and living on a goat farm somewhere. "I think people will be happy to know, they will get their goat farm," DeKnight said.
He has not heard anything about a spinoff for Caesar, and his work schedule would not permit him to be part of such a show, should one come to pass (and to be clear, Starz hasn't said anything about a spinoff). "I'd watch the hell out of that" if it happened, DeKnight said. "I say, 'Godspeed.' I would love to see this world continue. I think it's a fantastic world Rob and I were able to build. and I personally would regret if there wasn't something [more] told in that world."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sw9a...ayer_embedded#!
One last thing -- here's a short list of things I'll miss about "Spartacus:" Crazy eyes; Sparty-speak; slow-mo blood; incisive critiques of multiple forms of oppression; gay love; people jumping down from or up to things (often with crazy eyes); committed performances; badass feminism; entertaining profanity; the Undefeated Gaul; oiled torsos; crazy surprises and twists; rousing speeches; Syrians; so much hot damned manflesh; the tender romance of it all; epic deaths; lunatic Germans; inventive violence; and of course, "Jupiter's c0ck"
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Awesome finale to a truly great series but toward the end, part of me was sorta hoping the shows creator would throw history away and let Spartacus cut Crassus head clean off. Then they could have let Gannicus go into complete RAGE mode and killed Caesar along with every other Roman solider........
.....look what video games have done to me
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